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Fungus growing on a tree in Borneo
Originally classified as plants, fungi are not at all plants, because they are heterotrophs (they do not fix their own carbon through photosynthesis but use the carbon fixed by other organisms).
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Basidiomycota Fungi (singular: fungus) are a major group of living things, originally considered plants but now treated as the separate kingdom Fungi.
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Fungus infection which usually affects the mouth or vagina. White patches appear and the surrounding skin is red and sore.
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Fungus, Fungi (pl.): Any of numerous plants lacking chlorophyll, ranging in form from a single cell to a body of branched filaments. Includes the yeasts, molds, smuts, and mushrooms.
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fungus (plural: fungi). A multicellular lower plant lacking chlorophyll, such as mold, mildew, smut, or rust. The fungus body normally consists of filamentous strands called mycelium and reproduces through dispersal of spores.
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Fungus with flagellated stage; possible evolutionary link between fungi and protists.
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Fungus
: A Kingdom made up of a diverse group of unicellular or multicellular, eukaryotic organisms which are not plants or animals. Many are parasitic or saprophytic. Both asexual and sexual reproductions are possible.
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The fungus is Cladonia cristatella, an ascomycete. Its name is the name given to the lichen.
The photobiont is Trebouxia erici, a green alga. It is found in many other lichens as well, and also can be found growing independently.
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Fungus. A microorganism that lacks chlorophyll. Fusion gene. A hybrid gene created by joining portions of two different genes (to produce a new protein) or by joining a gene to a different promoter (to alter or regulate gene transcription). G Gamete.
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The enzyme is produced by the filamentous fungus Fusarium graminearum as an extracellular enzyme.
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Fungi are almost entirely multicellular (with yeast, Saccharomyces cerviseae, being a prominent unicellular fungus), heterotrophic (deriving their energy from another organism, whether alive or dead), ...
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Neurospora crassa, a filamentous fungus, contains little repetitive DNA other than rDNA repeats. It grows as a scyntium with haploid nuclei. A very brief diploid phase occurs.
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More Grail modules have been added to Perceval, the exon prediction code, including one for Phanerochaete chrysosporium, the white rot fungus genome sequenced by JGI.
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ectomycorrhizae Association of a fungus with a vascular plant root or rhizome system in which the fungus surrounds, but does not penetrate the living cells (protoplast) of the system.
ectoneural Oral (chief) nervous system in echinoderms.
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mycorrhizae -- Symbiotic association between a fungus and the roots or rhizoids of a plant. More info?
node -- The region of a stem between two internodes, where there is branching of the vascular tissue into leaves or other appendages.
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A zoonotic disease is a disease in which the pathogen, the virus, bacterium, fungus, protozoan-there are many different kinds of pathogens, of disease-causing organisms-in the case of zoonotic diseases, ...
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plant composed of a chlorophyll-bearing alga and a fungus living together symbiotically
Source: Noland, George B. 1983. General Biology, 11th Edition. St. Louis, MO. C. V. Mosby
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Phylloporus boletinoides - a fungus with a broadly convex brown cap and pores that extend part way down the stalk
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The densely branched network of hyphae in a fungus.
myelin
a sheath of fatty substance associated with protein that surrounds larger nerve fibers of vertebrates.
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